Half of the fun of Eve Online is flying around in a tricked-out starship. And what's the first thing you do when you buy a new starship? You name it! But not just any name will do. The name of your ship needs to either strike fear into the hearts of your enemies, or (if your enemies are fear-challenged) make them smile and hopefully a bit less likely to shoot you. Inspired by the
ship names of Iain M. Bank's
Culture series, here's a list of names I'm considering for my space vehicles.
- 1500MW Aperture Science Heavy-Duty Supercolliding Superbutton (cargo ship)
- At Least My Flaws Are Unique
- Chronic Untreatable Pyromania
- Combustion
- Don't Make Me Get My 70
- Dramatic Zoom
- Elvis Has Left the Building
- Emergent Software Bugs
- Everything Is Cooler When It's On Fire
- Familiar Cloning Vat
- Hey Guys, Watch This
- I Love The Sound That Makes
- I Say, Whose Cloud Of Doom Is That
- Irony
- Isn't That Dangerous
- It'll Be Over Soon
- Klingon Decorator
- Lightning Rod
- LOOK BEHIND YOU
- Malfunctioning Survival Instinct
- Minimum Force
- Misdirected Aggressive Feelings
- Nerf Warlocks
- Parody
- Pirates-Killed-Me-And-Took-My-Stuff Blues
- Pretty Fireball
- Properly Sized Ego
- Refunds Are For The Weak
- Rule 37
- Sarcasm Dependence
- Scary Tree
- Sense of Direction
- Single Point of Failure
- Spit and Polish
- Store Credit Only
- That Would Be Inappropriate
- These Railguns Are Just For Decoration Really
- This Hurts Me More Than It Hurts You
- This Won't Take Long
- TLA (three-letter acronynm)
- Treasured Memories Of Blowing Stuff Up
- Valuable Character-Building Experience
- Vote Iroh/Tea in '08
- We Need To Talk
- Wetware Malfunction
- What's The Worst That Can Happen
- Where's My Champagne
- Who's In My Chair
- Your Shoe's Untied
Unfortunately, the game limits ship names to 20 characters, which means I had to throw out a lot of my favorites. For my current ship, a Catalyst-class destroyer, I went with "We Need To Talk", which of course is the female signal phrase which tells you to steel yourself for something massively unpleasant. Seemed appropriate for a ship with as many weapon hardpoints as mine does...